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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1904
Page
3
Miss Hattie HasBrouck visits Humeston while Miss Ethel Carpenter tours Des Moines. Professors Keffer and Pammer visit and lecture about plants. Alumni and friends travel from Boone Hampton and Tacoma to attend campus events. Easter service music and student banquets frame the term’s end with lectures on farming and girls and boys clubs.
Taxes are due January 1 with delinquency March 1. Penalty begins April 1 at 1 percent per month. First installment due before April 1 and second by October 1 without penalty at Story County Bank, which holds the Ames vicinity list.
Reids yellow dent and Iowa King seed corn for sale tested 100 percent germination. March 10. by W P Coon.
A parade of visitors and travelers fills the week from Webster City to Des Moines, Ames, Boone, Nevada, Audubon and beyond. Residents like Roy Hutchison, Joe Sudor, Miss Cassie Lincoln, Miss Mary Leecing, and many others are noted visiting friends and relatives, attending hearings, or returning from trips to Des Moines, Boone, Boston, Los Angeles and Hot Springs for health and family reasons.
The Pittsburg Gazette notes Windsor Hartford and Wethersfield laws from 1788 39 restricting tobacco use to adults over 21 with physician certificates and court licenses The text sets fines sixpence per offense and requires constables to report violators to the court in tobacco related public settings and training days
The Times notes Adjt. Gen. Beyers visited Des Moines and Ames meetings formed a 45 member artillery company. They propose buying city land at Onondaga and Burnett streets for an armory and convention hall. Members will contribute 450 dollars and drill stipends from the state, with rent funds and bonds planned to finance a 48 by 96 foot single story building.
Waterways topic sparks talk as a Wall Street veteran with six years of experience prepares a lecture titled Our Great Waterways. The Yonkers Statesman notes the unexpected source of expertise and local curiosity.
A brief Detroit Free Press excerpt notes a man who failed in art and admitted it, then turned to business and found success, illustrating a career shift from creative struggle to commercial achievement.
A Washington man laments the lack of guidance for fiancés in wedding etiquette. He argues brides receive clear rules while grooms rely on instinct, and proposes practical hints so men look genuine without appearing ridiculous during ceremonies.
The London Chronicle notes Birmingham’s rise as a leader in metal ornaments since the mid seventeenth century. Charles II introduced French fashion, boosting Birmingham’s prosperity in watch chains necklaces bracelets buckles and snuffboxes though Southey warned of the cost to health and morality.
In Monday voting Parley Sheldon was reelected mayor with 435 votes. M A Manning won city treasurer with 326 votes, succeeding Henry Wilson. H E Slattery was elected city attorney with 414 votes to replace G Lee. Carl Little retained the city assessor post with 421 votes. Ward results show Duntz leading in the first ward with 41 votes over Kooser. Graham beat OBrien in the second ward 189 to 66. Lanning reelected in the third ward with 69 votes. Bissell won the fourth ward by 41 to 40 over Briley, with Cavell retiring from the council.
At Robert Allen's home on Wednesday March 30 Miss Anna Allen wed F Manford Hunter in a quiet ceremony officiated by Rev Ferra. The couple, well known in Ames, plan to begin housekeeping on Carroll street around July 15 and are currently at the bride’s brother’s home on State street.
The text explains how Romans freedmen wore a red cap called liberti nus and were registered among tribal lines. In 2638 Satur nius raised a cap on his spear to signal freedom for slaves rallying to the standard, marking the origin of the liberty cap used in art today.
A complete list for Ames and vicinity is available at the Story County Bank where the items can be paid.
A line from a Chicago Tribune piece compares love and fishing, noting that the girl who chased a foreign count accepts others in the sea while statistics show lobster catches shrinking yearly. The exchange highlights shifting fortunes and a realist view of romance.
A brief dialogue contrasts current and ancestral trades with a claim of deeper lineage. One speaker argues their ancestors were in trade longer, while the other notes shared trade roots but different generational depth.
Olsonville Greenhouses in Story county advertise home grown stock for planting. They offer apple trees 10 to 15 cents, plums, cherries, grapes, strawberries, currants, gooseberries, raspberries, flowering shrubs, perennials, pots bedding plants vegetables and seeds with large assorted lots. No agents and direct profits to customers. Call or phone 801.
A quoted exchange discusses how a former politician dislikes being called Honorable and fears remarks by strangers could harm his reputation. The note appears in Puck.
Report suggests average sand depth in African deserts lies roughly from forty to eighty feet. The range reflects geological uncertainty across regions and periods, with studies indicating substantial underground silica and dune formation.
For sale: thrifty nursery grown hard maple 8 and 10 foot at 50c each and other nursery stock with a free replace. Eggs for hatching from premium barred Rocks at $1.00 for 15. Enquire of J. J. Kegley, 535 Boone street, Ames, Iowa.
Advertisement touting two daily fast trains to California via Chicago and Northwestern routes. Electric lighted overland limited journey under three days, departs Chicago at 11:35 p m. Apply to agents of Chicago and Northwestern Ry. 43-78.
The Chicago and Northwestern traffic department has issued a handsome illustrated booklet describing the Overland Limited the most luxurious train in the world and the Chicago Union Pacific Northwestern Line to the Pacific Coast. Copy sent to any address for a 2 cent stamp by W B Kniskero P T M Chicago.
The Chicago Great Western Railway offers reduced round trip tickets to North and South Dakota every Tuesday until Oct 25. Information available from any Great Western Agent or J P Elmer G P A Chicago Illinois.
One fare plus a $2.00 round rate via Chicago Great Western Railway to Idaho Montana Oregon Washington British Columbia Assiniboia Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Tickets on sale May 1 and April 19. For information apply to any Great Western Agent or J P Elmer G P A Chicago.
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